Things that I think are worth your time.
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Brendan Carr’s FCC
In less than 100 days the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has been converted from a media and telecom watchdog into a bizarre, rights-trampling grievance machine built for one purpose: to coddle and protect the ego of President Donald J. Trump.…
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The Bathroom Bill is Back
House Bill 2 is unquestionably one of the most infamous pieces of legislation in North Carolina state history. Passed by a Republican supermajority in less than 12 hours, HB 2 mandated that transgender individuals use the bathroom that matches the…
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We Need To Talk About ICE
A video from Kat Abughazaleh about the government’s usage of ICE as an intimidation tool without regard for due process. We Need To Talk About ICE (Kat Abughazaleh – YouTube)
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Cherry Republic
I first visited the Cherry Republic in Glen Arbor, Michigan when I was in high school. One of my teachers, who was also my coach for cross country and the sponsor of adventure club, was the brother of Bob, Cherry…
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Email Servers and Signal
I thought this was a good look at how Pete Hegseth’s use of Signal differs from the email server that Hillary Clinton used while Secretary of State. The video is notably before more recent news stories about how Hegseth was…
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The Idea of Computer Generated Employees is Weird
The very idea of having an “employee” that is just a large language model and a generated portrait seems bizarre to me. A boss immediately hitting on the large language model when he sees the generated portrait is even weirder.…
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